Saskatchewan (film)

Saskatchewan is a 1954 fictional American Northernwestern Technicolor film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Alan Ladd and Shelley Winters. The film was shot in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, not far from the headwaters of the Saskatchewan River. The film was titled ORourke of the Canadian Mounted in the UK.

ORourke goes against his commanding officer who have offended the Cree by disarming them ORourke losing his friendship with Cajou when he personally has to take his rifle away. He later mutinies to save the Mounties who have to leave their Fort Saskatchewan for a rendezvous with a larger command at Fort Walsh. He must also aid Grace with whom he falls in love, but she is not as helpless as she first seems as an American lawman Hugh OBrian has papers for her extradition for murder.It was Alan Ladds second starring vehicle for Universal, for whom he had made Desert Legion. The arrangement was made in England, where Ladd was shooting Hell Below Zero. The film was to be shot on location in Canada, enabling Ladd to get a tax exemption from the US government. ........

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